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Fall Film Five

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Joe Morgenstern

Updated Sept. 10, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

If you want to save daylight time or spend it, you must remember to spring forward or fall back. If you want to renew your faith in movies, you must remember this: Fall is spring, a time of hope and blossoming when the poundingly ponderous productions of summer give way to films that might actually lift our spirits while engaging our attention. At least that's what I tell myself every year about this time -- that September, October and November will make the multiplexes, and the nation's dwindling stock of independent theaters, reasonably safe for sentient adults.